Muráň

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Muráň
coat of arms map
Muráň coat of arms
Muráň (Slovakia)
Muráň
Muráň
Basic data
State : Slovakia
Kraj : Banskobystrický kraj
Okres : Revúca
Region : Gemer
Area : 103.154 km²
Residents : 1,230 (Dec. 31, 2019)
Population density : 12 inhabitants per km²
Height : 393  m nm
Postal code : 049 01
Telephone code : 0 58
Geographic location : 48 ° 45 '  N , 20 ° 3'  E Coordinates: 48 ° 44 '30 "  N , 20 ° 3' 0"  E
License plate : RA
Kód obce : 525987
structure
Community type : local community
Administration (as of November 2018)
Mayor : Roman Goldschmidt
Address: Obecný úrad Muráň
329
049 01 Muráň
Website: www.muran.sk
Statistics information on statistics.sk

Muráň (until the 19th century in Slovak also "Podmuráň"; German Untermuran , Hungarian Murányalja - older also Murány ) is a municipality in Okres Revúca in central Slovakia .

Town hall in place

It is located about nine kilometers north of Revúca south of the Murano plateau in the northeastern foothills ( Spišsko-gemerský kras ) of the Slovak Ore Mountains and is traversed by the Muráň river of the same name .

The place was mentioned in writing for the first time in 1321, but a Moranalya (about "Muraner Schlossberg") is not mentioned until 1427 . The rest of the story is shaped by the respective rulers of the castle. The robber baron Matej Bašo , who was up to mischief in the first half of the 16th century, is notorious .

The ruins of Muráň Castle (mentioned in 1271 as castrum Mwran ) are located in the north on the mountains above the village, they burned down in 1702 and have been in ruins since then.

photos

View of Muráň in summer 2005
Cigánka Mountain (935 m) (above the town) with the ruins of Muráň Castle

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